Several people came to the open lake in front of them.
The lake water presents a deep turquoise color, with a large expanse of white mist covering the water. Through the misty mist, you can vaguely see a white pavilion standing leisurely in the center of the lake, like a fairyland.
"That's the White Jade Waterside Pavilion." Li Tian pointed to the center of the lake and explained with a somewhat solemn expression, "Our ancestors carved it from a single block of top-quality spiritual jade. The main array of Xuanji Walnuts is there."
Everyone looked at the river and saw a small boat also carved from white jade quietly moored under the weeping willows on the shore. It was obviously the only means of transportation to the center of the lake.
Su Jingui looked into the bottomless lake, swallowed, and said with a worried look, "Is this water... safe? There can't be any monsters hidden, right? If we take a boat to the middle of the lake, if something emerges from the water, we won't even have anywhere to run!"
Li Tianli said confidently, "Who knows."
Su Jingui was speechless at once. "This is the ancestral magic weapon of your Tianxuan Pavilion. You don't know who knows it!"
"I used to be the owner of walnuts, and I won't be attacked when I come in. Who would bother to study what our ancestors put in the water five hundred years ago?" Li Tian said angrily.
Su Jingui grimaced and wanted to suggest finding another way.
Cang Mo suddenly had a sharp look in his eyes, the wolf ears on his head twitched sharply, and said in a deep voice, "I don't have time to read."
Everyone turned around suddenly, and saw a heart-wrenching "crunching" sound coming from the trees behind them. Then, one by one, the blood puppets in blue emerged from the shadows like ghosts. Their bloody mouths, which had been gouged out, looked particularly weird and terrifying in the mist. They held short knives in their hands and were outflanking several people from all directions. Looking around, there was a large dense mass.
"Get on the boat!" Li Tian shouted, rushing onto the white jade boat first and tearing off the rope tied to the wooden pile on the shore.
Su Jingui no longer cared about whether there were monsters in the water or not, and helped the injured Jian Hong get on the boat while he was rolling and crawling.
Cang Mo protected Lin Qingyang behind him, swinging the fine iron mace in his hand with great force, making several muffled "bang bang" sounds, and smashed the heads of several blood puppets that rushed towards him, splattering sawdust and blood.
But the puppets behind felt no pain and continued to rush forward. Seeing that the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, Cang Mo swept away the obstacles in front of him with a stick, grabbed Lin Qingyang's waist, jumped up, and landed firmly on the white jade boat.
The ship sank suddenly, and then it automatically sailed away from the shore without any wind.
The few blood puppets that charged the most were unable to stop themselves and fell directly into the lake. One puppet clung to the side of the boat, half of its body hanging outside, and reached out to pull Su Jingui's sleeve. Su Jingui screamed in fright, raised the copper shield in his hand, and slammed it with his eyes closed, forcing the puppet into the water.
As the white jade boat gradually sailed towards the center of the lake, the mindless blood puppets on the shore could only rage helplessly at the water's edge, and the crisis was temporarily subsided.
"How come this boat can move on its own?" Lin Qingyang looked at the white jade boat moving smoothly and was a little surprised.
Li Tian sat on the bow of the boat, calmed his breathing and explained, "This boat is made of the leftover materials from the white jade waterside pavilion in the center of the lake. Because they come from the same source, there is an induction between them. As long as the rope is untied, it will automatically be attracted to the main body and sail to the center of the lake."
If he hadn't been on the run at this moment, Lin Qingyang would have really wanted to sigh at the ingenious craftsmanship and whimsical ideas of the ancestors of Tianxuan Pavilion.
The boat was traveling at a steady speed in the lake, with only the soft sound of rippling water around. After the continuous escape and fighting just now, everyone was at the end of their rope and sat paralyzed in the cabin.
Jian Hong's face was as pale as paper. Although the wound on his shoulder was simply bandaged, bright red blood was still seeping out. Su Jingui was lying there with his back stretched out imagelessly, with a face full of hopelessness. Li Tianze sat on the bow of the boat with his back to everyone, saying nothing, not knowing what he was thinking.
At first glance, who would have thought that these three miserable and disgraced people would be the powerful bosses in the world of immortality outside.
"Lean on me when you are tired." Cang Mo's deep and soft voice sounded in his ears, and he took Lin Qingyang into his arms and let him lean on his shoulders.
Lin Qingyang raised her eyes and looked at him. Seeing that Cang Mo was running for her life in this shabby place with her, she felt inexplicably sorry and said softly, "Why don't you blame me at all?"
"Why do you blame me?" Cang Mo raised his eyebrows.
Lin Qingyang sighed, "If I hadn't forced you to come to peace talks, you wouldn't have been involved in these troubles."
Hearing this, Cang Mo chuckled lowly and whispered into his ear, "Then when we get out, you have to make it up to me."
Lin Qingyang stared at him speechlessly. At this time, the pervert was still thinking about this in his mind. He paused and said, "If you can't get out, you, the mighty demon king, tell me that you stay here with me. Wouldn't it be a big loss?"
But Cang Mo raised the corners of his lips indifferently and hugged him tighter. "It's good. If we die together, we will be together. Don't you humans have a saying, sleep on the same bed when alive, and bury in a pit when dead."
"That's called living in the same quilt and dying in the same hole!!" Jian Hong, who had been listening next to him, finally couldn't bear it anymore. He suddenly opened his eyes and glared at the two of them angrily. His beard stood up with anger. "Can you two say these shameless words behind someone's back?"
Cang Mo, whose interest was disturbed, glanced at Jian Hong displeasedly, with a look that clearly wanted to throw him directly into the lake.
At this time, Su Jingui suddenly pointed out of the boat and exclaimed, "Hey! Look! What is that under the water?!"
After everyone heard this, they all looked toward the water.
At some point, the originally green lake water had become clear and transparent. Through the clear lake water, the scene in the water could be seen at a glance. Under the bottomless lake water, there were countless huge bronze gears densely arranged, meshing and operating in an extremely precise and shocking way. The lake water isolated the dull sound of metal friction. These gears were like works of art sealed in glass, strange and spectacular.
Li Tian looked at the water and said, "This is the internal center of Xuanji Walnut, which is used to transmit the energy of the formation in the center of the lake to all parts of the villa."
After saying that, he saw the confused expressions of several people, so he continued to explain, "This Xuanji Walnut is a miniature space. To create such a real and huge villa effect in such a small space requires a lot of energy to maintain, so the ancestors are creating this place." In space, an array is set up in the center of the lake to absorb all the energy in the space into the array, and then convert it into energy used to maintain the operation of the space. These gears are then transmitted to the entire space, so that those wooden houses and ponds can look like reality."
"I see. No wonder spiritual power cannot be used in this space." Lin Qingyang said.
The so-called way of cultivation, whether spiritual power or demonic power, relies on the energy between heaven and earth to circulate and operate, and the energy here has been sucked away by the formation, which is equivalent to no signal.
Su Jingui looked at the water and asked curiously, "If such an important mechanism is placed in the water, aren't you afraid of rusting?"
Li Tianbai gave him an angry look. "Do you think our Tianxuan Pavilion's magic weapon is a child's toy? These gears run with huge energy. Not to mention rusty, anything that touches it will be crushed!"
Cang Mo frowned and said nothing, while Lin Qingyang looked at the spectacular scene underwater. Strange black shadows suddenly appeared in the clear lake. Those black shadows were swimming among the green water plants at extremely fast speeds, and were gathering in groups towards the direction of the white jade boat.
"Are there any fish in the water?" Lin Qingyang frowned and looked at Li Tian.
When Li Tian heard this, his face instantly stiffened. He closed his eyes in pain, raised his hand to rub his throbbing temples, gritted his teeth and said, "That's not an ordinary fish... It's a piranha that my ancestors carved out of submerged hardwood when they had nothing to do..."